Manchester City 1-0 Newcastle United (19/08/23)

[Anderson]

No shame in that, neither team created anything clear cut. Into the Scousers next week.

[Mazzy]

Just now, OCK said:

Not a fan of Issak leading the line, much prefer when he has a 'free' role

 

There's no such role in this team though. He played that role maybe twice for about 45 minutes total last season out of neccesity. He's either playing through the middle upfront or he's on the bench. We can't be judging our season or our tactics for the next 36 games based on this 90 minutes, that would be insane.

[Mike]

They need to drug test Akanji, imo.

[Holloway]

General levels of agitation at this venue tbh

[McDog]

No surprise here.

[ScottishMagpie]

Fuckin shite man! grrrr!!!!!

[Gazzaschicken]

1 minute ago, toontownman said:

Longstaff proper cursed today. I don't think he has done anything but give the ball away with every touch. 

The whole midfield has been poor. Bruno, tonali, long staff, big Joe. 

[Andy]

Felt like we were happy with the 1-0 for the last 10-15 minutes, would like to have seen us at least try to get the ball into the box but we were just playing side to side.

 

Result was expected though but I was a bit disappointed at how comfortable we made it for them at times. 

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

5 players short but Adidas will sort that

They all know were coming for them 

[MrRaspberryJam]

Effort was there but the quality wasn’t. Didn’t disgrace ourselves. City’s in a league of their own. 

[Beren]

Absolute chasm between the sides. Nothing more to be said. Foden, in particular, was insane.

 

They played starters midweek. We used all subs, correctly got loads of yellow cards, they used no subs. And it was a walk in the park.

 

They're in a different league. Proud of the second half effort, but yeah. Newcastle firmly put in their place.

[SUPERTOON]

Botman was immense 

[Tiresias]

Oh well

[Gallowgate Toon]

Only caught the second. Infuriating decision making in the final third in key moments.

[gbandit]

Always bizarre seeing Kalvin Phillips after the final whistle. Such a bizarre place he’s in, just letting his career disappear before his eyes 

[Memphis]

That was a perfectly fine performance from us. We had a couple of good chances that we squandered. You don't get more than that. We held them reasonably under control. Nothing much to be concerned about here.

[PRL]

That didn’t feel right, at all 

[Anderson]

Just now, Mazzy said:

 

3 minutes ago, OCK said:

Not a fan of Issak leading the line, much prefer when he has a 'free' role

 

There's no such role in this team though. He played that role maybe twice for about 45 minutes total last season out of neccesity. He's either playing through the middle upfront or he's on the bench. We can't be judging our season or our tactics for the next 36 games based on this 90 minutes, that would be insane.

 

Only time I recall him fully having a ‘free role’ was second half away at Brentford.

[Conjo]

No shame in that. We could have done better in some situations that potentially could have resulted in a draw but not really unhappy about this all in all. Not the most exciting game though. Game against Liverpool will be more open imo. 

[Alberto2005]

Did Longstaff think we were playing in Blue tonight? Fuck me.

[ponsaelius]

Feel like I've wasted 2 hours of my life

[Ste]

Full time whistle. 
 

“Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.”

[Aiston]

On to next week.

[GEFAFWISP]

Rodri, Kovacic and Foden won them that game, outstanding from Man City, very difficult game but our defence was phenomenal, Schar and Botman stopping Haaland. Tripper and Burn were also very good. Not fussed about the result, think we can match them better at SJP with some more time for our new signings to integrate.

[TheInfiniteOdyssey]

Can’t help but be underwhelmed by that performance. We didn’t lay a glove on them.